Lotus Simulator

LOTUS-Simulator is a driving simulator where you choose a vehicle and drive it around town. You can take on tighter schedules, carry special passengers and handle difficult traffic as your ambitions grow. The simulator covers buses, trams, underground trains and suburban trains.

Driving and duties

You can drive on your own or take part in multiplayer with friends. Multiplayer supports different tours, meeting points, radio communication and coordination through a control centre, where players can either organize operations themselves or follow a colleague’s instructions. Players can also take on challenges set by a game leader, work with real duty rosters and long shifts, and drive a school bus route while managing student traffic. Weather and seasons are part of the simulator, though some features, including weather, are not available from the start of Early Access.

You can also bring historic vehicles back into service, such as an old tram with crank control, for museum runs or trips set in the period when it operated.

Build maps and content

The modular structure lets you choose which vehicle types to play: railway vehicles such as trams and trains, road vehicles such as buses and trolleybuses, or other modules released later. A map editor provides tools for shaping landscapes, planning embankments, laying tracks and paving streets, then adding buildings, trees, lights, stops, benches, fences and other details.

The content tool lets you configure scenery objects and vehicles, from material settings and complex animations to physics, sound and scripts. A plugin interface can connect equipment such as a discarded crank, a display-based passenger information system, a driver’s desk or a full cockpit, allowing it to operate with the simulator and receive information from it.